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NVIDIA Mobile: Nouveau vs. The Linux Binary Driver

07-07-2013, 03:20 AM

Phoronix: NVIDIA Mobile: Nouveau vs. The Linux Binary Driver

With the Linux 3.10 kernel having been pulled recently into the Ubuntu 13.10 archive, new benchmarks have been conducted comparing the open-source Nouveau driver against the binary NVIDIA 319.32 Linux graphics driver on a NVIDIA-powered laptop.

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Anyway, which card did you buy and which driver do you use (open source or proprietary)?

Yeah, it really pisses me off that AMD's proprietary drivers are slow to get updated and that AMD is holding progress back due to distributions shipping older versions of X.org because AMD doesn't have any driver out to support the latest Xorg.

Bought the cheapest card I could find just to have a graphics card for the computer since the old graphics cards broke. Later I intend to buy a Intel Haswell system which I will use with the integrated GPU on the CPU which is much faster than this shitty card.

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Yeah, it really pisses me off that AMD's proprietary drivers are slow to get updated and that AMD is holding progress back due to distributions shipping older versions of X.org because AMD doesn't have any driver out to support the latest Xorg.

Bought the cheapest card I could find just to have a graphics card for the computer since the old graphics cards broke. Later I intend to buy a Intel Haswell system which I will use with the integrated GPU on the CPU which is much faster than this shitty card.

Yeah thats the same situation i'm in, uid, though this laptop does have the 5730 in it. All my systems from now on are just gonna have whatever the latest intel CPU is at the time and integrated graphics and only if I get back into serious gaming will I pick up an AMD card (avoiding Nvidia now that AMD has UVD, HDMI Audio and DPM lol)

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Yeah thats the same situation i'm in, uid, though this laptop does have the 5730 in it. All my systems from now on are just gonna have whatever the latest intel CPU is at the time and integrated graphics and only if I get back into serious gaming will I pick up an AMD card (avoiding Nvidia now that AMD has UVD, HDMI Audio and DPM lol)

Yeah, exactly!

Note that AMD have some nice GPU in their CPU though.
The GPU part in the AMD CPUs are more powerful than the GPU part in the Intel CPUs.

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Note that AMD have some nice GPU in their CPU though.
The GPU part in the AMD CPUs are more powerful than the GPU part in the Intel CPUs.

True, but power usage is better on Intel CPU/GPUs, which is important for laptops. Also I'm a bit of a fan of Chris Wilson right now with how often he pushes out intel driver updates to fix bugs / regressions / etc, meanwhile it seems that (for the most part) the xf86-video-ati only gets updated every mesa release.